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Charity or other organisations that might be able to offer advice and support or practical help to serving personnel.

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity
Gives lifetime support to serving and retired soldiers and their families. Financial assistance is available to all soldiers and their families when in need, either directly to individuals to help in areas such as debt relief, mobility assistance, education bursaries, care home fees and respite breaks, or as grants to other charities.

About Turn CIC
Support and guidance to ex-service personnel who are experiencing difficulties in adjusting to a new life as a civilian, particularly when experiencing homelessness or housing problems, substance misuse problems, mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder, on probation or after release from custodial sentences.

Airborne Forces Security Fund
Financial assistance for former officers or soldiers, regular or TA, who have passed P Company or UK Special Forces selection procedure and have qualified as a military parachutist, and have served in an Airborne or Special Forces unit.

Armed Forces Charities
Free to use, searchable database of UK armed forces charities, developed by the Directory of Social Change with support from the Forces in Mind Trust. Users can search for specific armed forces charities by name, activity and type, including welfare and benevolent charities.

Armed Services Advice Project
Information, advice and support to members of the armed forces community in Scotland on a a range of topics, including benefits, debt, employment, relationships and housing.

Army Of Angels
Support for wounded service personnel: purchase of household necessity items, respite breaks (UK Only), modifications to homes for disabled veterans, rehabilitation equipment, rehoming of soldiers living on the streets.

Association of Wrens
Helps former Wrens keep in touch with friends and colleagues from service days.

Benefits and Money Advice Service NI
A partnership between the Royal British Legion, the Royal Airforce Benevolent Fund and Citizens Advice NI, can provide support and assistance to serving and former service personnel and their dependants and carers on benefits and money matters, including debt advice.

Blind Veterans UK (St Dunstan’s since 1915)
Help for blind former service men and women to lead rewarding and independent lives. Support is available not just those who lost their sight through warfare, but anyone who has ever served in the armed forces and has experienced serious loss of sight since.

Combat Stress
The UK’s leading military charity specialising in the care of veterans’ mental health.

Cruse Bereavement Care
Advice, information and support to anyone who has been bereaved (children, young people and adults), whenever or however the death occurred.

Erskine
Nursing and medical care for former members of the armed forces.

Forces in Mind Trust (The)
A partnership of UK armed forces charities, mental health organisations and other charities that offer help to the serving and veteran community, particularly with transition to civilian life.

Greenwich Hospital Charity
Charitable support including annuities, sheltered housing and education, to serving and retired personnel of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines and their dependants.

Hull Veterans Support Centre
Hull and the surrounding area. Support service for veterans and their direct family members who are suffering from PTSD, ill health and homelessness or who are experiencing difficulties adjusting to civilian life, hardship due to a dramatic change in their personal circumstances, or unemployment.

Inside Right – Football Foundation
A mental health and wellbeing football programme for ex-service personnel aimed at improving physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

Liverpool Veterans Project
Support to ex-service personnel, their families and those leaving the services and residing in the Liverpool area on access to mental health support, complementary therapies, employment help, housing information advice and support, referrals to specialised programmes (for example, drugs and alcohol), gym and fitness sessions.

National FEPOW Fellowship Welfare Remembrance Association
Practical help and assistance to former Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOWs) their wives and widows for home adaptations and mobility equipment, financial payments for hospital stays, nursing home grants, information about reunions (twice a year) and reunion grants, plus a transport grant to such reunions.

North East Scotland Disabled Veterans Association
Help for disabled veterans whether the disability was due to time in service or when in civilian employment, to re-integrate back into civilian life. Although a disabled veterans association, able bodied veterans are also supported.

PTSD Resolution
Help for veterans, reservists, and their families to reintegrate into a normal work and family life following military post traumatic stress suffered as a result of service in the armed forces.

Queen Alexandra Hospital Home
Specialist nursing care, residential and respite care for ex-service personnel, enabling residents to live as independently and actively as possible in an environment that they can think of as their home.

Royal Air Force (RAF) Benevolent Fund
Practical, emotional and financial support for all serving and former members of the Royal Air Force as well as their partners and dependent children.

Regional Driving Assessment Centre
Assistance in the rehabilitation of those who may have become disabled to help them to regain independent mobility. Advice about anything concerning driving or travelling as a passenger and also about what type of adaptations may be required to vehicles.

Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society
Housing, residential and nursing care to all former seafarers, particularly the elderly, infirm or disabled, their widows and dependants across the UK, as well as non-seafarers.

Royal Artillery Charitable Fund (RACF)
Advice on all welfare and benevolence matters as well as one off or recurrent grants for all essential needs, except legal fees and private medical treatment.

Royal British Legion (The)
Life care and support to all members of the British armed forces past and present, and their families. Wide ranging advice, including financial, employment, welfare, bereavement, as well as residential care and respite support.

Royal Cambridge Home (The)
Residential, respite and respite day care for ex-service women and the widows and female dependants of all who have served in the UK armed forces, whether regular, territorial or reserves.

Royal Hospital Chelsea
The home of the Chelsea Pensioners. Residential care for army veterans who served in Korea, the Falklands, Cyprus, Ireland and World War 2 and soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns when they retire.

Royal Naval Association (The)
Help for current and former naval service personnel and their relatives through regular social events, fundraising, advice on welfare and employment, or emotional support.

Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity
A grant making charity providing valuable funds for naval and military charities that work with families and veterans, especially those experiencing difficulty with child support, ill-health, old age or hard times.

Royal Navy Royal Marines Widows Association
Friendship, support and comfort, social events, and sign posting to other support organisations for widows, widowers and recognised partners of in receipt of financial support by way of pension or other from the Ministry of Defence.

Royal Navy Officers Charity
Financial relief for serving and retired commissioned officers of the Royal Naval Service and their families who are in financial distress, including grants to enable children who are in private education to complete a key phase of education after the death of an eligible parent or to provide stability during a period of family turmoil.

Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children’s Fund
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children’s Fund is the only charity dedicated to supporting children whose parents work, or have worked, for the Naval Service.
The needs of the children are paramount and help is provided when not available from family or statutory sources.

Royal Signals Benevolent Fund
Comfort and relief to past and present signallers and their dependants who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress.

Shoulder to Shoulder
A TimeBank mentoring project, run in partnership with Combat Stress, matching volunteer mentors with ex-service personnel (including former reservists and TA) who are recovering from mental health problems to provide help in their transition to civilian life by increasing their potential for social inclusion.